Awareness Post: Aaron Horkey

The Rotting Time

Aaron Horkey is contemporary artist born in Windom, Minnesota specializing primarily in pen and Ink. Horkey is a prolific artist making many posters for concerts and movies, including bands such as Isis and Converge along with a movie poster for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Much of his work is sold by the online store Mondo.

Jurassic Park Poster

Unfortunately I could not find much information about his education, training and what he does to study, but overall I feel like I can take away a lot of things I like about his work. Firstly, me and him have very similar subject matters and I feel like Horkey implements the subject matter into a narrative very effectively and it would be great to dissect and study. I feel like Horkey's understanding of form and lighting is definitely a quality I would wish to copy and try and implement into my own art. I feel like one way his is so effective is due to the use of colored paper along with use of white ink for highlights.

The Burden of Light

Additionally one thing I noticed that makes his art so effective is a minimal background with a detail heavy foreground, which I have been trying to do in my own art but not as effectively as I would want it to be. There are many repeated elements in his art was well such as the geometric shapes and organic shapes combined with architectural elements is a really nice juxtaposition and helps differentiate forms well, which I hope to implement into my own future art.